Time zone WIB (UTC+7) Area 1,318 km² | Capital Bandar Seri Bentan Website www.bintankab.go.id Population 172,192 (2014) | |
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Bintan Regency is an administrative area in the Riau Islands Province of Indonesia. Bintan Regency includes all of Bintan Island (except for the city of Tanjung Pinang which is separately administered as an autonomous area of the island) and also includes a few minor outlying islands.
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Map of Bintan Regency, Riau Islands, Indonesia
Location
The Island is located 40 kilometres from Singapore, with an area of 1,462.77 km2, and it has a population of around 330,000 at the 2010 Census (including Tanjung Pinang), which by 2014 had risen to about 400,000. Famous places in Bintan include Trikora Beach, on the east coast, and the international Bintan Resort.
Administration
The Regency is divided into ten districts (kecamatan) – tabulated below with their 2010 Census population:
Airports
Besides Raja Haji Fisabilillah Airport in Tanjung Pinang in the south of the Bintan Island, since 2012 a private company builds an airport at Lagoi in the north of the Bintan Island to facilitates tourism with investment $80 to $100 million and predicted operational in 2014.